Telecommunications giant AT&T has admitted that the personal data of 7.6 million current and 65.4 million former customers was compromised. The stolen data is not uniform, but includes “names, email addresses, mailing addresses, phone numbers, social security numbers, dates of birth, AT&T account numbers, and passcodes,” as detailed by AT&T. there is a possibility.
AT&T's passcodes are four-digit PINs, and the passcodes of 7.6 million current customers who were compromised have been reset. AT&T has contacted everyone affected by email or letter.
This information is clearly from 2019 or earlier, so much of the information pertains to former customers. No one has yet been accused or taken credit for the breach, but AT&T said there is “no evidence that unauthorized access to our systems led to the theft of data sets.”
This may actually be the same data that was being sold on hacking forums in 2021 for a starting price of $200,000, as reported by Bleeping Computer. But AT&T denied at the time that the data belonged to its customers, saying, “Based on today's investigation, the information displayed in the Internet chat rooms does not appear to originate from our systems.” .